Politics moves fast. These are the outlets that have called on me to make sense of it.
From breaking election results to EU institutional shifts and the rise of the far-right, below is a selection of my media appearances, quotes, and features across broadcast, print, and digital.
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When the Paris Court of Appeal decided this week to reduce Marine Le Pen’s sentence for embezzlement and misuse of European funds, reopening a path to the French presidency that had been thought to be closed, the leadership of the National Rally (RN) met immediately to decide what to do. Even before the announcement that […]
The former leader of the French far-right party (RN), Marine Le Pen, was sentenced on Tuesday to 45 months’ disqualification from holding public office – 30 of which were suspended – and to three years’ imprisonment, two of which were suspended and one to be served with an electronic tag. The verdict had been eagerly […]
Early on Tuesday afternoon, the judge responsible for reviewing her appeal will decide whether to uphold or overturn the sentence; if it is upheld, Le Pen will be barred from holding public office for five years. And analysts stress that the most likely outcome is that the sentence will stand. “At this stage, an acquittal […]
“Meloni is a pragmatist,” said Julien Hoez, editor of the French Dispatch and a political analyst. “There are various reasons she has decided to take on Trump — because he is unpopular in Italy, because Italians are reeling under high energy prices, because she wants to recover from the loss she faced in the referendum, […]
The announcement made at the start of the nuclear summit followed on the heels of another, when last week the French president, also echoing Charles de Gaulle, proclaimed the dawn of a new European nuclear era of “advanced deterrence”, which was accepted by Berlin, albeit reluctantly. “The point is that France really does need more […]
“There is a strong likelihood that all those who have criticised Emmanuel Macron’s leadership throughout his two terms in office will come to miss him greatly should the worst-case scenario materialise next year,” says Julien Hoez, a geopolitical analyst and editor of The French Dispatch, referring to the possibility of the far-right candidate, Jordan Bardella, […]
